Explosion at the Boston Marathon.

Biscuit said:
I think it harkens back to the Benghazi incident before the election. He was accused of not calling it a terrorist attack soon enough.
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Thanks for summing that up. I wanted to answer that it had to do with Benghazi, but I've never understood WTF Obama was supposed to have done wrong with Benghazi in the first place.
 
Polaris said:
Thanks for summing that up. I wanted to answer that it had to do with Benghazi, but I've never understood WTF Obama was supposed to have done wrong with Benghazi in the first place.
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I am not certain either but you can bet someone will try and explain how this is just like that and proves that Obama hates America or something.

I have no idea why we need to be cautious with the use of the word "terrorism."
 
Biscuit said:
I am not certain either but you can bet someone will try and explain how this is just like that and proves that Obama hates America or something.

I have no idea why we need to be cautious with the use of the word "terrorism."
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According to an article I read today "terrorist" and "terrorism" have specific legal meanings or more accurately certain prohibitions come into force once a person or organisation is declared to be terrorist (as opposed to "merely" committing illegal acts).
 
An old running friend of mine ran the marathon as a fund raiser, and was therefore behind most runners and the bombs (he ran twice as a qualifier). He wrote an heartfelt and moving article in the "Age" today:

http://www.theage.com.au/world/bost...turn-their-goodness-on-me-20130416-2hyip.html

He's a doctor, and would have felt for the victims greatly.

Police turned back those of us who were running into danger. I needed to contact family. Strangers handed me their phones. I asked a teenager for directions to a local landmark, where my relatives would be; the teen insisted on escorting me.

As I waited, strangers stopped to offer help. One bloke wanted to give me his jacket so I wouldn't get cold. Passers by touched me, or took my hand to shake. One gazed at me, shaking his head. "I am sorry," he said.

Boston silenced, in shock, in grief. Its citizens reaching out to each other in spontaneous solidarity. More than that, people felt implicated in a wrong, embarrassed: their guests had been hurt, frightened, frustrated. They turn their goodness upon me and I feel like crying.
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boooeee said:
Can someone explain what the exact issue is here? People are making a big deal of this, but I'm at a loss as to what conclusion they are drawing form it.

Something like "Obama didn't use the words 'terror' or 'terrorism', therefore....." ??????
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You're looking for a rationale for irrationality?
 
The Don said:
I presume that some people want Obama to act and do something immediately rather than wait and do the right thing.

Maybe if all Muslims were taken into custody as a precautionary measure then this would mollify those people calling for action.


edited to add, O'Reilly wants it labelled an act of war

O’Reilly said the more appropriate language to use should have been “an act of war.”
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http://dailycaller.com/2013/04/15/oreilly-criticizes-obama-for-labeling-attack-a-tragedy/
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I'm still shaking from this event. Never want to go through anything like that ever again. They messed with the wrong city. We can and will get justice for our town.
 
Patton Oswalt said:
Boston. *********** horrible.

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, "Well, I've had it with humanity."

But I was wrong. I don't know what's going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem. One human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.
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But here's what I DO know. If it's one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we're lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in awhile, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they're pointed towards darkness.

But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, "The good outnumber you, and we always will."
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Well said.
 
Polaris said:
Thanks for summing that up. I wanted to answer that it had to do with Benghazi, but I've never understood WTF Obama was supposed to have done wrong with Benghazi in the first place.
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The only thing I see Obama doing wrong is he's slipped back into the Democratic Party's incompetence in responding to the Republic Party's spin machine. He should have come out more strongly asserting the semantics game was nothing more than a political marketing tactic.

Now he's walking on eggshells with the word 'terrorism' but it matters not because if he uses it or doesn't use it, the outcome will be the same: The Republics will hit the airwaves with their talking heads to contrive some reason the wording was wrong and mattered.
 
So now the bombs were in pressure cookers and made of smokeless gun powder (cordite?), shrapnel including nails, and a timing device.

FBI is collecting all the material and think they can reconstruct 90% or more of the bombs in ideal situations.
 
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